The Wallis & Writers Bloc Present
Anthony Doerr and David Ulin
Thursday, September 29, 2022
7:30 PM
The Wallis
9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Our great local bookstore, Book Soup, will be there with
copies of Cloud Cuckoo Land. Anthony Doerr will sign books.
The Wallis and Writers Bloc present literary sensation Anthony Doerr.
Anthony Doerr weaves improbably connected worlds together as he considers innocence and guilt, kindness and guile. In his recent book, Cloud Cuckooland, named as a Best Book of the Year by many critics, Doerr takes us to the near future from the past and the present, with unforgettable characters.
Shooting off to the past and into the very near future, he makes our present dilemmas all the more urgent. Doerr explores our most profound weaknesses and vulnerabilities–while also highlighting our greatest qualities and real potential for individual heroism. Humanity, he shows us, can prevail, thanks to our common goodness, notwithstanding the nightmares around us. He uplifts us even as he reminds us of what we’re capable of doing, for better or for worse.
Doerr’s books, the sensational international bestseller, All the Light We Cannot See, and Cloud Cuckooland, are considered to be among the great achievements in American literature in the past many decades.
In conversation with David Ulin. Ulin is the former book critic for the Los Angeles Times, and writes frequently for the Los Angeles Times on arts, culture, and life in California. He is the author of many books, including Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time, and others. He is the editor of several anthologies, including the award-winning Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology.
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